Thank you for this wonderful video :) What a crisp description of ‘the art of knowing when to disclose aspects of your own history to a patient’ - to share for the benefit of a patient, and never in seeking to feel understood yourself, seems like an admirable, deep, centred quietness. Raising a patient, what an incredibly noble line of work! ^_^

Very clarifying. I have been following the questions on Quora, an American question and answer website and a lot of the questions reflect the relationship between patient and therapist. One big issue is a disconnect between expectation and actual therapist behavior. The patient .wants to know whether it's "okay" to react to that real therapist the way he does. You're saying what should be said and correcting an error that seems pervasive in American training.

Beyond Freud. Winnicott's accomodating approach to building therapeutic relationship. Disclosure - when, why and caution.